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SubjectRe: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:55:07PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Yes, the modification are not interfering with your patch. They just add
> the accounting of child processes to the selection.

Could you post your modifications on top of my patch so we can combine
them easily?

> That makes sense, but it does not catch processes forking a lot of
> childs, because the allocation rate is not accounted to the parent.

Not sure, the child could easily inherit the allocation rate of the parent.
So if the fork bomb spreads the last leaf in the process tree would
easily get accounted for every kernel stack/fds/etc.. and userspace
allocation done from its previous parents too.
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